Publications by authors named "Kristin Brunecker"
Article Synopsis
- Breast-conserving surgery with clear margins is the best treatment for early breast cancer, highlighting the need for accurate identification of normal versus cancerous tissue during operations.
- This study used optical emission spectroscopy (OES) to analyze tissue samples from breast cancer patients, aiming to find distinct spectroscopic features for differentiating between healthy and malignant tissues.
- With an average classification accuracy of 96.9% and high sensitivity and specificity rates, the study suggests that OES could potentially be used in real-time during surgeries to improve tissue margin assessment.
Purpose: Endometriosis is a benign, but potentially serious gynaecological condition in terms of abdominal pain and impaired fertility. Laparoscopic excision techniques are considered the therapeutic standard. HybridAPC is presented as a novel technique for the non-contact thermal ablation of peritoneal endometriosis with simultaneous protection of the underlying thermosensitive structures by creating a needle-free elevated fluid cushion which enables a safer exposure and distance, as well as potentially improved peritoneal conditioning prior to APC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This prospective, randomized, controlled, single-blinded study investigates the peritoneal adhesion formation of HybridAPC (waterjet elevation of the peritoneum with subsequent argon plasma coagulation) versus only waterjet (elevation with the same instrument, but without subsequent argon plasma coagulation) in a rat model (24 female Wistar rats).
Materials And Methods: Bilateral lesions were created on the abdominal wall with HybridAPC on one sidewall and waterjet elevation on the other sidewall of the peritoneum in a standard fashion. After 10 days, the rats were euthanized to evaluate the peritoneal trauma sites.